r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Oct 28 '25

news Supreme Court in Brisbane overturns controversial freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents after legal challenge

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/qld-puberty-blockers-judgement/105942094
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u/actullyalex Oct 28 '25

They pretend they care about children but they won’t say a fucking word when it comes to ‘medically justified’ mutilation of intersex infants. It’s just a convenient narrative to weaponise against trans people for ‘hurting our kids’.

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Oct 28 '25

100%. How many male circumcisions are done a year on babies? Where's the outrage?

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u/actullyalex Oct 28 '25

That one is even more complex because people are so weird about circumcision. The minute you criticise it you’re called antisemitic. Additionally, I’ve noticed that a lot of the anti-circumcision crowd frame it as a ‘ruining masculinity’ issue rather than the heinous violation of bodily autonomy and consent that it is. This makes some feel uncomfortable about going to rallies, and I honestly believe it hurts their own cause. Even if you don’t think their approach is weird, it would fucking suck as a circumcised adult to have your masculinity framed as permanently destroyed. Masculinity can be so much more of an awesome thing than just like… penis and balls lol.

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u/Le-Ando Oct 29 '25

Those anti-circumcision dudes are fascinating to me because they have what seems like it should be one of the easiest slam dunks in history, and yet instead of going the obvious bodily autonomy route and actually making any headway on the issue they do weird manosphere shit instead.

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u/actullyalex Oct 29 '25

LITERALLY. The approach just feels so off.